Beauty and The Beast

Icarus

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Icarus

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Two-stage Tri-LuxIII Aleph3/SO17XA (201-262 Lumens)

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Aleph3 head, Aleph 2x123 Power Pack, McE2S two stage switch, 3x LuxIII TW0J emitters + 3x IMS SO17XA reflectors, custom made heatsink and BadBoy500 driver module running on 2x AW LIR123 batteries. Will also run on 2xPila150S, 2xLIR 17500, 2xCR123 and 3xCR123 batteries when using the appropriate power pack.

Heatsink is epoxied into the Aleph head.
Driver module can be removed after desoldering the wires to the leds.

Lumens output: 3x (67.2 - 87.4) = 201.6 – 262.2 Lumens.
Lux reading at 1m using Meterman LM631: 330 Lux on low (22ohms); 2450 Lux on high.

Runs in regulation as long as Vin > 4.5V.

Runtime in regulation at max brightness without interruption
2x AW LIR123's (750mAh): 41 - 45 minutes
2x Pila150S (1000mAh): 75 minutes.

Alauda's review can be found here.
 
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Icarus

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Quad-LuxIII FatMag5D/SO27XA (268-349 Lumens)

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Black Mag5D body, FM-3H head, Borofloat lens, 4x LuxIII TWOJ stars + 4x IMS SO27XA reflectors, custom-made heatsink and Fatman driver running on 8x 1/2D NiMH batteries.

The trimpot of the Fatman driver was adjusted to limit the output current to 1000mA.
Dimming control not implemented.

Lumens output: 4x (67.2 - 87.4) = 268.8 – 349.6 Lumens.
Lux reading at 1m using Meterman LM631: ??? Lux.

Runtime (in regulation) was 91 minutes (uninterrupted) on 8x 1/2D Aero 4000mAh NiMH batteries.
 
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alauda

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Hope you had a good holiday.. now stop teasing us.

Cant send PM as you have too much mail waiting (apparently)
 

MorpheusT1

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Now were talking ;)

I am really looking forward to getting one of these ;)

Now stop teasing us and give us some specs :)



I hope you had a nice vacation,
Benny
 
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Sway

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Not that we haven't been through enough with the cold turkey weekend, I see Icky has adopted the ways of teaser posting with his latest creations….Such an Evil Teaser he is ;)

Later
Kelly
 

Icarus

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Sorry guys but I had to clean up my PM's first. :)
And since it's 2:50 am here I really need some sleep now! :nana:
 

MorpheusT1

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Dangit.....

I guess id better crawl back to bed then...
Nothing to see here ;)

Time is 03.00 After Midnight here.

Give us some sugar in the morning okay ;)



Benny

Pm sent!
 

MorpheusT1

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OMG!

Thank you Freddy,
Do you think i will be able to sleep now?


You know i want one!
Dangit,i want both!
Pm sent!


Benny
 
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Mags

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Thats mean icarus :(.

By the way, are those 3 IMS20s or 17s in the Aleph 3?
 

andrewwynn

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fantastic.. is that (4) IMS27s in an ELX6 body? if not.. what it be? actually looking closer it just looks 'similar' but with mag 5D body?

-awr
 

modamag

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Freddy, great use of your "new tools" :D
This thread shoudl be re-topic to be "Beauty and La Belle"
 

MorpheusT1

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That is a piece of work,

To bad the FM3 is so hard to come by.
But that aleph looks mighty fine too.
I will be wanting one of those for my B-day,its the 4th of November.
Just so you know ;)


Happy modding Freddy,
Benny
 
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